Otaria peronii Desmarest, 1817

(Fig. 60)

Otaria peronii Desmarest, 1817d: 598 .

COMMON NAME. — Australian Fur Seal.

CURRENT NAME. — Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus (Wood Jones, 1925) .

See Webber (2014: 94) and Jackson & Groves (2015: 293).

COLLECTOR/S. — Stanislas Levillain. COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Australia. Geographe Bay according to Péron (1804a) and collected by Louis Depuch. COLLECTION DATE. — Between 14 and 28 June 1801. SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — MNHN-ZM-2014-27 (Fig. 60), holotype skin mount . According to Robineau (1992), this specimen would not be Desmarest’s type specimen, due to a large difference in length (127 cm for the specimen while the largest mentioned by Desmarest measured 83.9 cm).

OTHER NUMBER/S. — Anc. Cat. Gal. 2032, Nouv. Cat. Gal. 29.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.